Another site, the non-profit Kiva.org, is also social in nature, but instead of donations to charities, it lets you make interest-free loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
"The abuse of prescription medications is one of the most troubling public health problems in our country today, " said Steve Pasierb, president of the non-profit Drugfree.org which runs education campaigns about drug abuse.
When America goes to the polls in November, every voter in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana will use the same direct response electronic (DRE) voting machines that lack any paper backup and have been shown again and again to suffer from security flaws, according to polling place data gathered by the non-profit VerifiedVoting.org.
After going through the exhausting process of getting the first interview, he decided to start a non-profit, legupcareer.org, which will run workshops for students at schools where top consulting firms do not recruit, like University of North Carolina and Penn State.
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Will.i.am attended an event for OurTime.org, a non-profit organization that encourages young people to vote.
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Code.org, a non-profit founded by entrepreneurs Hadi Partovi and his brother Ali Partovi, is launching a campaign to try to get more computer science courses and more students studying programming.
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You can get lots of information on keeping kids safe, secure and productive online from my site SafeKids.com and at ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization where I serve as co-director.
The not-for-profit has a web site www.doasone.org, as well as an app, that offer free breathing tools for everyone and anyone to use at their leisure.
While working for a micro-finance non-profit in South Africa after graduating college, Beshara created dvelo.org to help charities group-fund donations for projects in developing countries.
The service is free, and with a name like Change.org the company even sounds like a not-for-profit.
Some country code extensions are popular in their own countries and some others have had niche success such as .tv for video and .me and .ly for social media, and of course .org is still the go-to extension for non-profit, but otherwise going with anything other than a .com for a startup generally winds up in an uphill battle for relevance just to save a few early bucks.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization specializing in market-based health policy. www.galen.org.
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